# CVE-2024-53275: GHSL-2024-091: DNS rebinding attack in home-gallery

> An attacker can use DNS rebinding to bypass network restrictions and extract private photos from a default-configured home-gallery instance.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 18 Feb 2025

## What is CVE-2024-53275?

CVE-2024-53275 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in xemle home-gallery, published on 23 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Home-Gallery.org is a self-hosted open-source web gallery to browse personal photos and videos. In 1.15.0 and earlier, the default setup of home-gallery is vulnerable to DNS rebinding. Home-gallery is set up without TLS and user authentication by default, leaving it vulnerable to DNS rebinding. In this attack, an attacker will ask a user to visit their website. The attacker website will then change the DNS records of their domain from their IP address to the internal IP address of the home-gallery instance. To tell which IP addresses are valid, we can rebind a subdomain to each IP address we want to check, and see if there is a response. Once potential candidates have been found, the attacker can launch the attack by reading the response of the web server after the IP address has changed. When the attacker domain is fetched, the response will be from the home-gallery instance, not the attacker website, because the IP address has been changed. Due to a lack of authentication, home-gallery photos can then be extracted by the attacker website.

Weakness: CWE-350 (Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-53275?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-53275?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-53275 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-53275 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-53275 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-53275 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-53275 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in xemle home-gallery, published on 23 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-53275 exists.

Affected product: xemle home-gallery. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53275/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53275/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53275
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53275
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-53275

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53275/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.